But Uncle Jack and Little Sister, with the help of old Uncle Wash, nursed it, petted it and helped old Betty to raise it.
He had humored, pettedand helped to spoil her as a child.
Must she, who all her life had been the petted child of fortune, go among menials to eat with she knew not whom?
That pleased Forked-tongue very much; for no one ever petted him, and his eyes shone like jewels as he coiled his slender body nearer Bud's feet, and lifted up his head to answer her.
For three years this once petted child had been learning what it was to be one of many, or, as she herself put it, one too many.
How could I ever do without papa, who always petted me so, if I hadn't you?
To think of you, my little, delicate, petted darling, looking for employment by which to earn your daily bread!
But the little horse refused to leave him, and followed him back to town, where he was taken in and petted again.
In his loneliness, hopelessness, and desolation he found it dangerously sweet to be thus petted and sought after.
Although petted and indulged, she had not been spoiled, and remained singularly free from the selfishness usually developed in the character of an only child, nurtured in the midst of mature relatives.
Petted and fostered like a hot-house flower, and then to die a pauper in a hospital!
She was just getting over the measles, and had been very much petted during her convalescence.
While her father was rather stern, her mother spoiled and petted her; and she was the idol of her aunt Hode, the fiddler's wife.
We were welcomed everywhere, petted and praised, abroad as well as at home.
It was pleasant to be pettedand spoiled by favorite cousins and stuffed with belated sweets by unfavorite ones.
She only petted and coddled her and sent her out to play.
Promptly when custom prescribed, Pinchus, the petted only son, was sent to heder.
And thus ended most of my unlawful escapades; I was more petted than scolded for my insubordination.
He went about among the common people of Cherry Hill, who had known Arthur Dillon from his baptism, had petted him every week until he disappeared, and now adored him in his success.
They spent the evening, Olivier kneeling by his sister's side while she petted him like a child.
At a dingy saloon corner, near the river, a shabby little man greeted him heartily and petted the mongrel.
He pettedhis mongrel extravagantly (well he might!
They expected to be petted and flattered as those looked up to as the saviours of the Empire.
I am as petted as a bairn, when I should bless God, that has redeemed her from shame, and poverty, and guilt, as ower likely she might hae been plunged into.
Some of the soldiers I had known as the gayest and most petted of ball-room and club; and now they were cutting wood and frying bacon, as if they had never done anything else.
The music was furnished by some of the ancient negro minstrels--so dear to the juvenile southern heart in days gone by; or more frequently by the delicate fingers of some petted and favored belle.
It was jealously exclusive, and even the most petted beaux of the American quarter deemed it privilege to enter it.
The dog had gone to her knee and laid his bronze mane against the white ruffles, and while she listened and smiled, she idly fondled and petted him with her childish, ringed hand.
For a day or two Martin stayed in bed and Cherry spoiled and petted him, and was praised and thanked for every step she took.
Perhaps she was jealous of the love my father lavished upon me; for her aversion increased with years, in exact proportion as I grew prettier and my father petted me more.
Ran down and gave Lady Annabella some milk and petted her, but come on--Guardie and Girlie are trotting up to the barn to put their pigs to bed.
Well, they all told him he had been asleep and dreaming; and they petted and consoled him, and took him into the house, and Aunt Grace gave him an apple almost as big as his own head.
Illustration] You may imagine how Aunt Grace caught him up, and kissed and petted and scolded him all in a breath.
A man who is learning to play on a trumpet and a petted child are two very disagreeable companions.
The fine ladies who petted her could not put one grain of their fine-ladyism into her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
